This issue was fixed in commit e9697d98e7249b0f68a6be040a4f3dcc5bc101fa
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| Description | GNU wget is vulnerable to denial of service in its FTP OPIE/S-KEY authentication functionality. The server-supplied sequence number from the FTP challenge line is used as an iteration count for an MD5 key-derivation loop without any upper bound validation. A malicious FTP server or a network attacker positioned to intercept FTP traffic can send a crafted OPIE challenge with a sequence number near INT_MAX, causing wget to perform up to approximately 2.1 billion MD5 computations and suspend for some time. The --timeout option does not mitigate this because it applies only to network I/O, not CPU computation. This issue was fixed in commit e9697d98e7249b0f68a6be040a4f3dcc5bc101fa | |
| Title | Denial of Service in GNU wget | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-606 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CERT-PL
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-25T14:51:53.738Z
Reserved: 2026-07-22T14:11:18.939Z
Link: CVE-2026-16599
Updated: 2026-08-25T14:46:09.957Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-25T15:16:30.340
Modified: 2026-08-25T15:16:30.340
Link: CVE-2026-16599
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